Church news for Feb. 9

Spaghetti supper
at SG Community House
SUGAR GROVE—A benefit spaghetti supper will be held at the Sugar Grove Community House on Saturday, Feb. 11, from 4:30 to 7 p.m. The meal will include spaghetti and Matt McCannon’s special spaghetti sauce, lettuce salad with all the fixings, garlic bread, desserts and beverages.
The free-will offering will support the 2012 Sugar Grove United Methodist Missions Team for their upcoming trip to Grace Children’s Hospital in Haiti.

Sugar Grove UMC’s
Tooth Fairy Mission
SUGAR GROVE—During the month of February, the Sugar Grove United Methodist Church’s Mission of the Month is its annual Tooth Fairy Mission, in which monetary donations, toothbrushes and toothpaste are collected for the Between Friends Food Pantry in Sugar Grove and the guests at Hesed House, a local homeless shelter in Aurora.
Dr. Donald Fee, who has been practicing dentistry at Family Dental Care in Sugar Grove since 1993, will match monetary contributions up to $500. Dr. Fee will use this monetary donations to purchase toothbrushes and travel-size toothpastes at cost, greatly extending the value of contributions.
If anyone would like to support the Tooth Fairy Mission, checks payable to SGUMC with “Tooth Fairy” in the memo can be mailed or dropped off to the Sugar Grove United Methodist Church at 176 Main St., P.O. Box 226, Sugar Grove, IL 60554. There is also a Tooth Fairy bucket in the church fellowship room for dental care items. For more information, call the church office at (630) 466-4501.

Community Congregational offers series on
Christianity and Islam
Elburn—Community Congregational Church pastor Michelle Prentice-Leslie will conduct an adult education class on Christianity and Islam on the Sundays in February, beginning at 12:30 p.m.
The public is invited to this series held at the church, located at 100 E. Shannon St., Elburn.
“All Christians need to better understand our 21st century world, and learning about Islam is a good place to start,” said Prentice-Leslie.
For information, call (630) 365-6544.

Immanuel Lutheran Church concert series
BATAVIA—The fifth program in the Second Sunday Concert Series will be at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12. The series is sponsored by Immanuel Lutheran Church, and the program will be in the church’s Family Life Center, 950 Hart Road.
“Praise, Praise II” is the theme of the program. It will be given by the musicians and choirs of the contemporary praise teams from Immanuel and Word of Life Lutheran Church, Naperville. The contemporary music is a chance for participants to raise hands and voices with the team leaders from both congregations.
All Second Sunday concerts are free; those attending may give an offering.
The final concert of the season will be at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 11. It will feature Quartet West, a string quartet; the second-year orchestra of Immanuel Lutheran School and the Fox Valley Children’s Chorus.

Taize Worship
at St. Charles Episcopal
ST. CHARLES—St. Charles Episcopal Church, 994 N. 5th Ave. (Route 25), St. Charles, invites the community to experience Taize Worship on Sunday, Feb. 12, at 7:30 p.m.
Worship in the style of Taize, a monastic community in central France, is a service of light and shadows, chant and silence, readings and quiet prayer. Information on Sunday and mid-week worship services, the outdoor labyrinth, youth and adult education classes and outreach opportunities is available from www.stcharlesepiscopal.org or (630) 584-2596.